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Cultural heritage

About: Cultural heritage is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 28201 publications have been published within this topic receiving 273875 citations. The topic is also known as: cultural assets & cultural goods.


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TL;DR: In this article, the role of Buddhism in heritage preservation discussions and practice is explored, focusing on the notion of the impermanence of matter and its relationship with materiality and its importance in the preservation of heritage.
Abstract: This article explores the role of Buddhism in current heritage preservation discussions and practice. Buddhism deals to a great extent with materiality, but the notion of the impermanence of matter...

66 citations

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TL;DR: The introduction of new townships at the edge of many historic cities in Malaysia has exposed them to severe pressure of commercialization, poor design and cultural uniformity that has faded away their place identity as mentioned in this paper.

66 citations

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TL;DR: The Wet Tropics Regional Agreement in 2005 committed governments and the region's Rainforest Aboriginal peoples to work together for recognition of the Aboriginal cultural heritage associated with these forests and the resultant heritage nomination process empowered community efforts to reverse the loss of biocultural diversity as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Australian humid tropical forests have been recognised as globally significant natural landscapes through world heritage listing since 1988. Aboriginal people have occupied these forests and shaped the biodiversity for at least 8000 years. The Wet Tropics Regional Agreement in 2005 committed governments and the region’s Rainforest Aboriginal peoples to work together for recognition of the Aboriginal cultural heritage associated with these forests. The resultant heritage nomination process empowered community efforts to reverse the loss of biocultural diversity. The conditions that enabled this empowerment included: Rainforest Aboriginal peoples’ governance of the process; their shaping of the heritage discourse to incorporate biocultural diversity; and their control of interaction with their knowledge systems to identify the links that have created the region’s biocultural diversity. We recommend further investigation of theory and practice in Indigenous governance of international heritage designations as a means to empower community efforts to reverse global biocultural diversity loss.

66 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a new effective methodology for carrying out computer assisted delineation of layouts from cultural heritage sites, using 3D digital models, is described The proposed procedure has been tested in five intervention projects on representative churches within the “Merindad de Aguilar de Campoo” medieval area, in the north of Spain.

66 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the ambiguous terrain where art and heritage meet, creating a language that is both locally rooted and cosmopolitan, and show how heritage-informed art functions as a platform for performing the future Palestinian nation state.
Abstract: Beyond the commonsense dichotomy between art as radical practice and heritage as conservation, this article analyzes Palestinian heritage as the ambiguous terrain where these two practices meet, creating a language that is both locally rooted and cosmopolitan. By examining the recent Palestinian art biennales (biennials), I show how heritage-informed art functions as a platform for performing the future Palestinian nation-state. Organized by a heritage organization, the biennales highlight the creativity of a new generation of Palestinian heritage NGOs, which continue a local social-organizing tradition marked by the alliance between heritage, the arts, and liberation politics. This cultural production undermines a traditional dichotomy between heritage and counter-memory because it represents both part of a state-building project and an act of anticolonial resistance, suspended between what scholars term “transnational governmentality” and “counter-governmentality.” I argue that Palestinian heritage practices constitute a form of nonstate governmentality. In this context, problems of representation acquire strong relevance.

66 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20244
20232,033
20224,256
20211,681
20202,042
20192,082